"I am also sick of other online blatherers who describe themselves as "aspiring writers." Not to get too Yoda-like, but either write or don't. There is no aspire. I think the only way you get to call yourself an "aspiring writer" is if you don't have any hands and your voice-recognition software or head-mounted laser-pointer virtual keyboard thingy has not yet arrived via FedEx."

...Junior
the butcher rolls it forward, laid out across
a low dolly: a button buck, tiny spikes,
red eyes clouded over — stiff like a toy horse
knocked on its side. Hunters freeze their kill,
bring it to Junior to make "roasts, chops —
hamburger, mostly," Junior says...

27.6.04

Given that nothing was going to beat The Lord of the Rings, and that nothing deserved to beat Pride and Prejudice, it's the best result I could imagine. I'm also deeply grateful to the series for helping my books sell in such pleasant quantities. It wouldn't have happened without The Big Read, and I'm very happy about it.

Sea of Cortez Expedition and Education Project: "Proyecto de Expedición y Educación del Mar de Cortéz"
From March 26 to May 26, 2004, we retraced a journey that John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts made to the Gulf of California in 1940.